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53 tools, models and places to run them, grouped by what you want to do. Each links to a page with prices, licence and sources.
Music and sound, background music
- AIVA: Writes instrumental music for you from a chosen style, which you can then edit note by note. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Beatoven.ai: Makes royalty-free background music and sound effects from a short written description, in your browser. (Tool, Closed)
- Boomy: A website that uses AI to make music for you. (Tool, free option)
- Loudly: A browser music studio that makes instrumentals or full songs with vocals from a description, and can split songs into parts, remix tracks you own, master them and send them to streaming services. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Lyria 2: Google DeepMind's earlier music model, which turns a text description into a short piece of music. (Model, Closed)
- Mubert: Makes royalty-free instrumental background tracks for videos, streams and apps from a short description or a pick of genre, mood and length. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- MusicGen: Meta's downloadable model that turns a short English description, optionally with a hummed or played tune, into instrumental music clips. (Model, Downloadable, with conditions, free option)
- Soundful: Makes royalty-free instrumental tracks and beats from a chosen genre template, in your browser. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- SOUNDRAW: Makes backing tracks and beats in your browser: pick a genre, mood, length and energy, then tweak the result. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Stable Audio: Stability AI's browser app for making music and sound effects from a written description, or reworking audio you upload. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Stable Audio 2.5: Stability AI's closed music and sound model. (Model, Closed, free option)
- ACE-Step: A free, downloadable model that writes whole songs, with or without vocals, from a text description and lyrics. (Model, Fully open, free option)
- Adobe Firefly: Adobe's AI studio for making and editing pictures from text, plus short videos, voiceovers, music and sound effects. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- BandLab SongStarter: A song-idea generator inside the BandLab music studio. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Eleven Music: ElevenLabs' song maker: describe a song and get music with or without singing, in several languages, then regenerate single sections like the chorus. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Filmora: A video editing app for computers and phones from Wondershare, with built-in AI extras: make clips from a description or photo, lengthen clips, auto captions, text to speech, music and sound effects. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- FlexClip: A browser video editor with templates and many AI helpers: turn a prompt, article or slides into a video, add AI voiceovers, subtitles and music, remove backgrounds and make AI images. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- getimg.ai: A browser workspace for making and editing pictures with many different AI models, plus video, music, speech and sound effects. (Tool, Closed)
- Google Flow Music: Google's music app where you chat with an assistant to make full songs with vocals, remix tracks, split songs into parts and make music videos. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Google Flow Music (formerly MusicFX): Google's MusicFX page now leads to Google Flow Music, where you chat with an assistant to make full songs with vocals, remix tracks and split songs into parts. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Google Flow Music (formerly Riffusion): Riffusion's web address now leads to Google Flow Music, where you chat with an assistant to make full songs with vocals, remix tracks and split songs into parts. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- ImagineArt: An all-in-one creative site for pictures, video and audio. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Magic Hour: A web app with dozens of quick AI tools on one credit balance: make or restyle video clips, swap faces, sync lips to new audio, animate a photo, and make images, voices and music. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Mureka: Makes full songs with singing, lyrics and backing music from a short description, in your browser. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- MyEdit: A browser and phone editor with simple AI audio tools: remove or isolate vocals, make music or sound effects from a description, clean up noisy recordings, change your voice and read text aloud. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Picsart: A popular photo and video editor for phone and web with many AI tools: make pictures from a description, remove backgrounds, enhance photos, and generate video, voice and music using dozens of other makers' models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Replicate: A pay-as-you-go service for running thousands of AI models by other makers, for pictures, video, speech, music and text. (Place to run it, Closed)
- Soundverse: A browser music studio that writes songs with vocals from a text prompt, and can also extend tracks, split songs into parts and clone a voice. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Stable Audio Open 1.0: A downloadable model that turns a short English description into up to 47 seconds of stereo audio. (Model, Downloadable, with conditions, free option)
Music and sound, a changed, longer or remixed version of a song
- iZotope Ozone: Mastering software that runs inside music apps such as Logic or Ableton. (Tool, Closed)
- LANDR: A toolkit for home musicians: automatic AI mastering to make a finished track sound polished, a stem splitter, a large sample library, plugins, and release to streaming services. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- ACE-Step: A free, downloadable model that writes whole songs, with or without vocals, from a text description and lyrics. (Model, Fully open, free option)
- Eleven Music: ElevenLabs' song maker: describe a song and get music with or without singing, in several languages, then regenerate single sections like the chorus. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Google Flow Music: Google's music app where you chat with an assistant to make full songs with vocals, remix tracks, split songs into parts and make music videos. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Google Flow Music (formerly MusicFX): Google's MusicFX page now leads to Google Flow Music, where you chat with an assistant to make full songs with vocals, remix tracks and split songs into parts. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Google Flow Music (formerly Riffusion): Riffusion's web address now leads to Google Flow Music, where you chat with an assistant to make full songs with vocals, remix tracks and split songs into parts. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Loudly: A browser music studio that makes instrumentals or full songs with vocals from a description, and can split songs into parts, remix tracks you own, master them and send them to streaming services. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Mureka: Makes full songs with singing, lyrics and backing music from a short description, in your browser. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Musicfy: Lets you make a song sound as if it were sung by a different voice, either one from its library or a custom voice you train from recordings. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Soundverse: A browser music studio that writes songs with vocals from a text prompt, and can also extend tracks, split songs into parts and clone a voice. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Stable Audio: Stability AI's browser app for making music and sound effects from a written description, or reworking audio you upload. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Stable Audio 2.5: Stability AI's closed music and sound model. (Model, Closed, free option)
Music and sound, short loops and samples
- BandLab SongStarter: A song-idea generator inside the BandLab music studio. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Splice: A big subscription library of royalty-free loops and samples made by people, with AI helpers that suggest matching sounds and build layered 'stacks' from a loop so you can sketch song ideas. (Tool, Closed)
- LANDR: A toolkit for home musicians: automatic AI mastering to make a finished track sound polished, a stem splitter, a large sample library, plugins, and release to streaming services. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Loudly: A browser music studio that makes instrumentals or full songs with vocals from a description, and can split songs into parts, remix tracks you own, master them and send them to streaming services. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Mubert: Makes royalty-free instrumental background tracks for videos, streams and apps from a short description or a pick of genre, mood and length. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- MusicGen: Meta's downloadable model that turns a short English description, optionally with a hummed or played tune, into instrumental music clips. (Model, Downloadable, with conditions, free option)
- Soundful: Makes royalty-free instrumental tracks and beats from a chosen genre template, in your browser. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Soundverse: A browser music studio that writes songs with vocals from a text prompt, and can also extend tracks, split songs into parts and clone a voice. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Stable Audio Open 1.0: A downloadable model that turns a short English description into up to 47 seconds of stereo audio. (Model, Downloadable, with conditions, free option)
Music and sound, separate a song into parts
- AudioShake: Splits audio into separate parts: vocals and instruments in a song, or dialogue, music and effects in a film soundtrack. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Demucs: A free, open model that splits a song into separate drums, bass, vocals and other parts (a six-part version adds guitar and piano). (Model, Fully open, free option)
- LALAL.AI: Splits a song into separate parts such as vocals, drums, bass and guitar, and can clean noise or echo from voice recordings. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Moises: A practice and production app for musicians: it splits any song into parts like vocals, drums and bass, finds chords, writes out lyrics and changes speed. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- MyEdit: A browser and phone editor with simple AI audio tools: remove or isolate vocals, make music or sound effects from a description, clean up noisy recordings, change your voice and read text aloud. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Ultimate Vocal Remover: A free desktop app that splits a song into parts, such as vocals and instruments, on your own computer. (Tool, Fully open, free option)
- Eleven Music: ElevenLabs' song maker: describe a song and get music with or without singing, in several languages, then regenerate single sections like the chorus. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Filmora: A video editing app for computers and phones from Wondershare, with built-in AI extras: make clips from a description or photo, lengthen clips, auto captions, text to speech, music and sound effects. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Google Flow Music: Google's music app where you chat with an assistant to make full songs with vocals, remix tracks, split songs into parts and make music videos. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Google Flow Music (formerly MusicFX): Google's MusicFX page now leads to Google Flow Music, where you chat with an assistant to make full songs with vocals, remix tracks and split songs into parts. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Google Flow Music (formerly Riffusion): Riffusion's web address now leads to Google Flow Music, where you chat with an assistant to make full songs with vocals, remix tracks and split songs into parts. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Kits AI: Music-focused voice tools: turn a sung or spoken take into another voice, clone your own singing voice, and split songs into vocals and instruments. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- LANDR: A toolkit for home musicians: automatic AI mastering to make a finished track sound polished, a stem splitter, a large sample library, plugins, and release to streaming services. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Loudly: A browser music studio that makes instrumentals or full songs with vocals from a description, and can split songs into parts, remix tracks you own, master them and send them to streaming services. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Soundful: Makes royalty-free instrumental tracks and beats from a chosen genre template, in your browser. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Soundverse: A browser music studio that writes songs with vocals from a text prompt, and can also extend tracks, split songs into parts and clone a voice. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Suno: Makes complete songs, with singing, from a short description or your own lyrics, in a browser or phone app. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Voice-Swap: A web studio for turning a sung or spoken recording into another voice from its library, splitting songs into parts, and reading text aloud. (Tool, Closed)
Music and sound, a full song with vocals
- ACE-Step: A free, downloadable model that writes whole songs, with or without vocals, from a text description and lyrics. (Model, Fully open, free option)
- Eleven Music: ElevenLabs' song maker: describe a song and get music with or without singing, in several languages, then regenerate single sections like the chorus. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Google Flow Music: Google's music app where you chat with an assistant to make full songs with vocals, remix tracks, split songs into parts and make music videos. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Google Flow Music (formerly MusicFX): Google's MusicFX page now leads to Google Flow Music, where you chat with an assistant to make full songs with vocals, remix tracks and split songs into parts. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Google Flow Music (formerly Riffusion): Riffusion's web address now leads to Google Flow Music, where you chat with an assistant to make full songs with vocals, remix tracks and split songs into parts. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Mureka: Makes full songs with singing, lyrics and backing music from a short description, in your browser. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Soundverse: A browser music studio that writes songs with vocals from a text prompt, and can also extend tracks, split songs into parts and clone a voice. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Suno: Makes complete songs, with singing, from a short description or your own lyrics, in a browser or phone app. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Udio: Makes songs, including singing, from a text description, and can extend or remix audio you upload. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- YuE: A free, downloadable model that turns your lyrics and a style description into a full song with singing and backing music, in English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and more. (Model, Downloadable, with conditions, free option)
- ComfyUI: A free, open-source app where you build image, video, audio and 3D workflows by linking boxes together, running open models on your own computer. (Tool, Fully open, free option)
- Loudly: A browser music studio that makes instrumentals or full songs with vocals from a description, and can split songs into parts, remix tracks you own, master them and send them to streaming services. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- MiniMax Audio: MiniMax's text-to-speech service: a web app and paid API that read text aloud in realistic voices, copy a voice from a 10-second sample, or design a new voice from a description. (Tool, Closed)
- MyEdit: A browser and phone editor with simple AI audio tools: remove or isolate vocals, make music or sound effects from a description, clean up noisy recordings, change your voice and read text aloud. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Replicate: A pay-as-you-go service for running thousands of AI models by other makers, for pictures, video, speech, music and text. (Place to run it, Closed)
- WaveSpeedAI: A pay-as-you-go service for running many makers' AI models: video (Seedance, Wan, Kling, Veo and others), images, speech and music, lip-sync avatars and 3D. (Place to run it, Closed, free option)
Music and sound, sound effects
- AudioGen (medium): A downloadable model from Meta that makes short sound effects, like a dog barking or footsteps, from a text description. (Model, Downloadable, with conditions, free option)
- Stable Audio Open 1.0: A downloadable model that turns a short English description into up to 47 seconds of stereo audio. (Model, Downloadable, with conditions, free option)
- Adobe Firefly: Adobe's AI studio for making and editing pictures from text, plus short videos, voiceovers, music and sound effects. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Bark: A free, downloadable model that turns text into speech in 13 languages, and can add laughs, sighs, background noise or a little music. (Model, Fully open, free option)
- Beatoven.ai: Makes royalty-free background music and sound effects from a short written description, in your browser. (Tool, Closed)
- ElevenLabs: Type text and get natural-sounding speech in many languages, or make a copy of your own voice. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Filmora: A video editing app for computers and phones from Wondershare, with built-in AI extras: make clips from a description or photo, lengthen clips, auto captions, text to speech, music and sound effects. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- FlexClip: A browser video editor with templates and many AI helpers: turn a prompt, article or slides into a video, add AI voiceovers, subtitles and music, remove backgrounds and make AI images. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- getimg.ai: A browser workspace for making and editing pictures with many different AI models, plus video, music, speech and sound effects. (Tool, Closed)
- ImagineArt: An all-in-one creative site for pictures, video and audio. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Magic Hour: A web app with dozens of quick AI tools on one credit balance: make or restyle video clips, swap faces, sync lips to new audio, animate a photo, and make images, voices and music. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Magnific: Began as an AI upscaler that makes images sharper and larger while adding detail. (Tool, Closed)
- MMAudio: A research model that adds matching sound effects to a silent video clip, or makes sounds from a text description. (Model, Downloadable, with conditions, free option)
- MyEdit: A browser and phone editor with simple AI audio tools: remove or isolate vocals, make music or sound effects from a description, clean up noisy recordings, change your voice and read text aloud. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Scenario: A web studio aimed at game and design teams. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Stable Audio: Stability AI's browser app for making music and sound effects from a written description, or reworking audio you upload. (Tool, Closed, free option)
- Stable Audio 2.5: Stability AI's closed music and sound model. (Model, Closed, free option)